Packet scheduling (was: Re: 3.0 wishlist Was: Overview of 2.2.x goals?)

Richard Jones (rjones@orchestream.com)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 11:25:12 +0000


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Message-ID: <34C48974.61D4B408@orchestream.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 11:24:36 +0000 From: Richard Jones <rjones@orchestream.com> Organization: Orchestream Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.33 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> Subject: Packet scheduling (was: Re: 3.0 wishlist Was: Overview of 2.2.x goals?) References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980119210103.19449M-100000@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

James Mastros wrote: > > > > * Packet scheduling > > > Done, I think. > > The source looks neat.. But how do I turn it on? :) > CONFIG_EXPERMENTAL=y > CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y > whatever algorithm you want=m > then insmod the module for the algorithm you want (I say to do this as > modules because that way if the algorithm dosn't work well you can disable > (=not enable) it).

So inserting the module turns on the queuing? But then how do I configure the queues for CBQ, say? Looking at the code, there seems to be something missing ... ie. userspace tools to control the packet scheduling and ioctls in the kernel that just return -EINVAL.

Rich.

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